The grateful elephant, Opening, part 13, sentence 89
Raising her pestle aloft, intending to kill the flies, with the thought in her mind, “I’ll make way with them!” she struck her mother with the pestle and killed her.
Who acts: merchant · What happens: raise, intend, kill, make, strike, mind · To what, where: pestle, flies, way, mother, merchant · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (merchant), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Raising | raise | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 make | csubj |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 pestle | nmod:poss |
| 3 | pestle | pestle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Raising | obj |
| 4 | aloft | aloft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 pestle | amod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 intending | punct |
| 6 | intending | intend | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 Raising | conj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 kill | mark |
| 8 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 intending | xcomp |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 flies | det |
| 10 | flies | fly | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 kill | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 thought | punct |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 thought | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 thought | det |
| 14 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Raising | obl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 mind | case |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 mind | nmod:poss |
| 17 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 thought | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 make | punct |
| 19 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 make | punct |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 make | nsubj |
| 21 | ’ll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 make | aux |
| 22 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 23 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 make | obj |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 them | case |
| 25 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 make | obl |
| 26 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 22 make | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 make | punct |
| 28 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 struck | nsubj |
| 29 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 make | parataxis |
| 30 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 mother | nmod:poss |
| 31 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 struck | obj |
| 32 | with | with | ADP | _ | 34 pestle | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 pestle | det |
| 34 | pestle | pestle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 struck | obl |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 killed | cc |
| 36 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 struck | conj |
| 37 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 killed | obj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | raise | gerund | merchant's pestle | with the thought in merchant's mind | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent pestle=Patient with thought=Instrument | ||||
| 2 | intend | gerund | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | kill not said to happen | to-infinitive | the flies | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fly=Theme | |||||
| 4 | make in a quote | future | merchant | way | with Flies = fly | tree rules | |||
| 5 | strike | past | merchant | merchant's mother | with the pestle | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent mother=Patient with pestle=Instrument | |||
| 6 | kill | past | merchant not said here | merchant | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 7 | mind | merchant | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Project Gutenberg book 74064 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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